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The UN said on Saturday that suspension of humanitarian operations in Rann, Borno, on March 2 was still in force.
The suspension was announced as the UN withdrew its workers from the community after a March 1 attack by suspected Boko Haram terrorists who killed eight persons, including three aid workers, and abducted a nurse.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) said Nigeria’s Humanitarian Coordinator, Mr Edward Kallon, was meeting with high-level Government officials from Abuja in Maiduguri.
It also said that Kallon would travel to Maiduguri next week for an assessment of the situation in the North-East.
The UN had said that it would conduct an assessment of Rann in the wake of the March 1 attack and evacuation of humanitarian officials.
“At present, there is no aid worker presence in Rann as the 52 aid workers who were there were evacuated last Friday.
“Across north-east Nigeria, there are approximately 3,000 aid workers operating in 26 locations, compared to only a few hundred in early 2016,” the UN said.
It explained that the operational capacity of humanitarian partners in the three most affected states by the Boko Haram insurgency – Adamawa, Borno and Yobe – continued to expand.
The UN said that the humanitarian partners in the three states consisted of 73 national and international partners.
These were in addition to 31 international Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), 33 national NGOs and nine UN agencies.
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